So now we just have Jezebel, Fred, and Sophie here in the house. And apart from Jezebel's diabetes, they are all healthy. Sophie tends to have some weird limping from time to time, but that is most likely from how she was declawed in a bad way. (not by me.)
Anyway, we are happy to know that so far, everyone is good. We have a new vet that seems to understand how we want to care for our pets, and I am trying to be more patient with Sophie and Fred--the orange cats--even though they drive me nuts.
Thursday, February 11, 2010
Jezebel
So a week after we lost Farley, Jennifer and I had been out to dinner, and when we came home, we noticed that Jezebel was having a hard time standing up. We tried to get her to sit up, but her back legs kept giving out. So, in the middle of the night, we packed her up in a carrier and drove her to the Emergency Clinic where Farley had been the week before. It wasn't fun.
The emergency vets checked Jezebel's blood, and her blood glucose level was 25. Hypoglycemia...
This made us feel pretty bad. They had to put her on IV fluids to get her blood sugar up. So we left her there overnight. Around midnight, we headed back home, and I set the alarm to go off at 5:45am, so that I could get dressed for a meeting at work, pick her up from the emergency clinic, and drop her off at our regular vet for more testing and monitoring throughout the day.
I woke up the next morning when my phone rang and I recognized the Emergency Vet's number. In a panic, I answered, afraid that something horrible had happened. But, the receptionist was just asking me if I was still coming to pick up Jezebel. It was now 7am, and I'd managed to sleep through the alarm. I was going to be charged $15 for every 15 minutes after 7am that they had to wait for me.
I threw on my clothes and rushed up to get Jezebel. I managed to get there in about 18 minutes, so I didn't lose too much money for oversleeping. And they said she was doing okay. Her blood glucose was up around 150, but that was pretty low for a cat on an IV with sugar water.
Jezebel and I drove to the regular vet, and I dropped her off. I got a call a couple of hours later letting me know that she was doing ok, but her blood glucose was up around 500, so they took her off the IV and were going to give her some high protein food to try to normalize things. (A normal blood glucose level is 80-150mg/dL, so she was now way too high.)
So we took her off insulin for a couple of days to see how she was going to do. Then, we gave her 1 unit once a day, followed by 1 unit twice a day. We made a handful of trips to the vet for more testing and urinalysis. We managed to test her at home with a glucometer. And now, we are at 2 units of insulin, twice a day. It's probably time to take her back for a checkup, but we may just try to test at home for a couple of days and see what we find.
The emergency vets checked Jezebel's blood, and her blood glucose level was 25. Hypoglycemia...
This made us feel pretty bad. They had to put her on IV fluids to get her blood sugar up. So we left her there overnight. Around midnight, we headed back home, and I set the alarm to go off at 5:45am, so that I could get dressed for a meeting at work, pick her up from the emergency clinic, and drop her off at our regular vet for more testing and monitoring throughout the day.
I woke up the next morning when my phone rang and I recognized the Emergency Vet's number. In a panic, I answered, afraid that something horrible had happened. But, the receptionist was just asking me if I was still coming to pick up Jezebel. It was now 7am, and I'd managed to sleep through the alarm. I was going to be charged $15 for every 15 minutes after 7am that they had to wait for me.
I threw on my clothes and rushed up to get Jezebel. I managed to get there in about 18 minutes, so I didn't lose too much money for oversleeping. And they said she was doing okay. Her blood glucose was up around 150, but that was pretty low for a cat on an IV with sugar water.
Jezebel and I drove to the regular vet, and I dropped her off. I got a call a couple of hours later letting me know that she was doing ok, but her blood glucose was up around 500, so they took her off the IV and were going to give her some high protein food to try to normalize things. (A normal blood glucose level is 80-150mg/dL, so she was now way too high.)
So we took her off insulin for a couple of days to see how she was going to do. Then, we gave her 1 unit once a day, followed by 1 unit twice a day. We made a handful of trips to the vet for more testing and urinalysis. We managed to test her at home with a glucometer. And now, we are at 2 units of insulin, twice a day. It's probably time to take her back for a checkup, but we may just try to test at home for a couple of days and see what we find.
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